U.S. podcasters spread Kremlin narratives on Nord Stream sabotage

October 3, 2022 2020 election, cia, russia

Archived 4 years ago from Brookings Institution
U.S. podcasters spread Kremlin narratives on Nord Stream sabotage

Footage shared by the Swedish Coast Guard shows methane gas leaking from the Nord Stream gas pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm. (Swedish Coast Guard/Cover Images) One week ago, powerful explosions ruptured a pair of underwater natural gas pipelines—Nord Stream 1 and 2—that run between …

Brazil’s election could destabilize a divided country

Elections

October 3, 2022 2020 election, chloroquine, cia, covid19, ivermectin

Archived 4 years ago from Vox.com
Brazil’s election could destabilize a divided country

Update, October 3, 9:50 am: Because no candidate received 50 percent of the vote, Brazil’s elections are heading to a runoff. According to the Associated Press, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had 48.4 percent of the vote and President Jair Bolsonaro had 43.2 percent. Bolsonaro outperformed polls and …

Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Mike Lindell’s appeal in 2020 election lawsuit

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October 3, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell, sidney powell, trump

Archived 4 years ago from NBC News
Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Mike Lindell’s appeal in 2020 election lawsuit

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s bid to fend off a defamation lawsuit the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems filed over his far-fetched claims about the 2020 presidential election. The justices’ decision not to hear the case means a federal judge’s ruling …

Conspiracy

October 3, 2022 2020 election, george soros, russia

Archived 4 years ago from Financial Times
When conspiracy theorists run countries

I used to think conspiracy theories were the refuge of the powerless and the uneducated. The conviction that dark and secretive forces are manipulating world events was the mark of an outsider, surfing the internet or shouting in the streets. In the corridors of power they knew better. As British …

Fox’s Jeanine Pirro is back in hot seat in .6 billion election defamation case

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October 1, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell, sidney powell

Archived 4 years ago from Oregon Public Broadcasting
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro is back in hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, shown here addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2017, has been placed at the center of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections. MIKE THEILER / AFP …

Elections

September 30, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell

Archived 4 years ago from KLCC FM Public Radio
Election fraud claims are driving polarization in the midterm elections

The recent primary election in Shasta County in far northern California struck a nerve with some of the county’s far-right constituents. Voters elected a more moderate slate of local and county-wide candidates rather than choosing ultra-conservative politicians. At his family’s gun store in …

Ginni Thomas tells Jan. 6 committee she believes election was stolen

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September 30, 2022 2020 election, china, maga, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from USA TODAY
Ginni Thomas tells Jan. 6 committee she believes election was stolen

It has appeared for some time that Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, swims in the shallow end of the reality pool. After the 2020 presidential election, she texted this to then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff: “Biden crime family …

2020 election conspiracists could soon oversee voting in U.S. battleground states

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September 30, 2022 2020 election, china, deep state, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Reuters
2020 election conspiracists could soon oversee voting in U.S. battleground states

Sept 30 (Reuters) – Two far-right U.S. politicians who want to upend the way votes are cast and counted are tied or leading in races to become the top election administrators in their states, according to recent polls. Republicans Jim Marchant of Nevada and Mark Finchem of Arizona promote wild …

Ginni Thomas tells Jan. 6 panel she still believes false election fraud claims, chair says

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September 29, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from POLITICO
Ginni Thomas tells Jan. 6 panel she still believes false election fraud claims, chair says

Thomas, also known as Ginni, sat with the panel behind closed doors for over four hours in a congressional office building where they have conducted many of their interviews. She is one of the select committee’s major outstanding witnesses as investigators start to wind down their probe, and …

Sioux City Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rioter sentenced to 90 days in prison

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September 29, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 4 years ago from Des Moines Register
Sioux City Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rioter sentenced to 90 days in prison

A Sioux City man is the third of four Iowans convicted so far in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot to be sentenced, receiving a 90-day jail term on Thursday. Kenneth Rader, 54, also will be required to serve 36 months of probation. Surveillance video shows Rader inside the Capitol for three …

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